Hacking Gateway 3DS - First 3DS Flashcart

[Pong20302000]

I hope the whole eshop will be wide open to us soon like it is on the Wii. And all the eshop games will be playable from sdcard
(I am just dreaming )

lol when there no actual hack involved with this card
or can you see into the future?

 

[Metoroid0]

Can i just say that unless Someone do a review of this cart, no one can accurately tell what it can or can not do.
Unless someone has it in their hands and unless time has passed.
Everything else is guessing. Just a friendly reminder...

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By the way, i hope that Decapping is in progress
Where can i follow it, i mean the progress that is? (link please ^^)

I remember that i waited to hack my Wii for 3 years, but it was also Free, except i had to buy SD card which cost almost nothing. But estimation that Getaway could be 50$ ~ 100$ is just to much. But as time passes by tech stuff go down with the price.
I think i'l wait a little more...

 

[janii]

What do they mean with:
- Is it one microSD per game?
Currently yes.

I thought by the time they ship out they would have their game manager built and running.
Looks like it aint. Or not at this moment.
So would it have an Game Manager (multiple ROMs in 1 card) in the near future?
Either by a fully new flashcard (from gateway) or by updating it somehow (firmware)?
New flashcards with new features will come asap after the release of gateway, but if its possible to update it by firmware or something to get new features (like the manager or whatever) i would get it.

 

[Mementos]

What do they mean with:
- Is it one microSD per game?
Currently yes.

I thought by the time they ship out they would have their game manager built and running.
Looks like it aint. Or not at this moment.
So would it have an Game Manager (multiple ROMs in 1 card) in the near future?
Either by a fully new flashcard (from gateway) or by updating it somehow (firmware)?
New flashcards with new features will come asap after the release of gateway, but if its possible to update it by firmware or something to get new features (like the manager or whatever) i would get it.

Read the conversation il postet earlier:
http://gbatemp.net/threads/gateway-3ds-first-3ds-flashcart.348900/page-5#post-4663234

should answer your questions

 

[blahkamehameha]

In the FAQ they throw out words like 'currently', 'eventually', and 'possibly' to keep interest in this product.

As Pong has stated, Nintendo will easily kill the card with an update, so it's going to be another PS3 scenario. Considering the upcoming games like Pokemon X/Y and Arkham Origins: Blackgate, I have no interest in purchasing this product if you'll not be able to update the 3ds firmware, which all signs indicate.

 

[raulpica]

It's all up to how they're managing to load the games in the 3DS. If they levereage on some system Nintendo uses for its legit titles, Nintendo will have to do extensive testing to be sure of not breaking anything while they block the Gateway.

 

[masterz87]

The 3ds supports carts up to 8GB(nintendo themselves confirm this) but I doubt we'll see any games of that size until way way in the future. Look at the ds, the _only_ 2 games to use the 512MB carts are pokemon b&w2. And they're _only_ using 260MB of data in total. So don't expect _any_ games using 8GB total until 3++ years from now at the earliest. Also to teh guy who's talking about fat32? Why the hell would you want that? Use ext2 or flashfs. Both are _way_ faster and support sd cards up to the bajillions of gigabytes. Otherwise you're going to have issues since ex-fat is patented and getting software to work with it is "fun" at the least. I mean yes we are talking about flash cart makers here, but still exfat isn't very common anywhere but windows and maybe mac osx.

 

[elm]

Well count me out right now in buying one... I hate the fact that you have to put one game on a single micro-card.

 

[OscarRamos]

Which game was that?!?!?! I was trying to remember today lol... And yes I hate the fact that you can't rlly do much with the save...

Lol mario the 8 bit version

Well count me out right now in buying one... I hate the fact that you have to put one game on a single micro-card.

At least the bright side is that the system is finally hacked. We can't always get what we want... Lol, show some appreciation at least.

Wouldn't it be awesome to see R4i and Gateway come together. I think with 2 great minds and support, it can be an amazing hack

 

[elm]

At least the bright side is that the system is finally hacked. We can't always get what we want... Lol, show some appreciation at least.

Oh I'm thrilled it was hacked... I just hope there is room for better improvements in the future!!

 

[elm]

Now I just hope the WiiU could be hacked really soon.... where we can play WiiU games on a hard-drive that is!!

 

[how_do_i_do_that]

The 3ds supports carts up to 8GB(nintendo themselves confirm this) but I doubt we'll see any games of that size until way way in the future. Look at the ds, the _only_ 2 games to use the 512MB carts are pokemon b&w2. And they're _only_ using 260MB of data in total. So don't expect _any_ games using 8GB total until 3++ years from now at the earliest. Also to teh guy who's talking about fat32? Why the hell would you want that? Use ext2 or flashfs. Both are _way_ faster and support sd cards up to the bajillions of gigabytes. Otherwise you're going to have issues since ex-fat is patented and getting software to work with it is "fun" at the least. I mean yes we are talking about flash cart makers here, but still exfat isn't very common anywhere but windows and maybe mac osx.

Etrian Oddyssey IV uses a 1MB save file, whats your point in referencing DS when information on most 3DS titles already exist.

 

[kisamesama]

The pricing is a bit high for something that may be block rather fast, I may just wait for a cheaper alternative.

that's because it's the first 3ds "flashcart"

 

[adambomb]

ahahah $80 and it can't even save games!
oh man.
i feel bad for the suckers that actually buy this.

 

[Odnetnin46]

Sounds alright for 1st-gen tech, but until this supports multirom and homebrew is viable, it's basically a piracy device backup player.

Baby steps.

 

[blank2]

80 $ ... too many for flash (eprom) emulator i'm waiting for china clone.

 

[SifJar]

At least the bright side is that the system is finally hacked.

Not really. Tricking a system into thinking a close-copy of a legit cart is a legit cart isn't a "hack". For it to be a hack in my book, there must be some custom code running of some sort. Even just a small modification of existing code would probably qualify.

 

[Master X]

I'm planning to buy a couple.

I was interested in collecting old DS flashcards, but I got into them to late. A lot of the older cards were no longer avaliable.

So I'm going to start on 3DS cards instead.

 

[DiabloStorm]

So, basically as long as someone plays one rom at a time, you'd only need a minimum of one 4 GB SD card, correct? It was never mandatory to hoard piles of them.

 

[Rydian]

Agree with SifJar here. No unsigned/arbitrary code running on the CPU means it's not a hack. It's a flash cart in almost the purest form right now.